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How Garfinkle is shaping the Term Sheet newsletter

Allie Garfinkle

Allie Garfinkle of Fortune, who writes its Term Sheet newsletter, was interviewed by SBS Communications about her job.

Here is an excerpt:

A number of the tech industry’s top journalists have previously been Term Sheet writers. How are you making the newsletter your own? What changes can we expect?

My joke about this: I was given a crowded theater then everyone held their breaths to see if I could sing. In seriousness, Term Sheet has a history of incredible reporters (special love to Anne Sraders and Jessica Mathews, whose work you should follow right now). I’m genuinely honored to have taken up the Term Sheet mantle and I mean this sincerely: Joining Fortune has meant so much to me. I mean, I grew up with Fortune magazines, right? And my whole career I’ve looked up to journalists like Bethany McLean and Carol Loomis. I know I have a lot to live up to.

For better or worse, my style is pretty off-kilter. I like to make myself a guinea pig. I reference Stephen Sondheim, Olivia Rodrigo and Hammurabi’s Code, tying them into topics like AI and interest rates. That’s weird, yes, but it feels authentic to me and people seem to like surprising touch points.

I also think every Term Sheet era is distinctive just by the nature of the medium. A daily newsletter is kind of like giving a block of marble to a bunch of different sculptors – they’ll all come up with something quite different.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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